Silva Agostini is an artist based in Berlin. In her artistic praxis, including photography, video, drawing, site-specific performances and interventions, she is interested on the conceptual spaces and processes that emerge when different layers of time encounter. Tensions and conflicts of past eras anchored in architecture, music, theater, and traditional or religious practices are confronted in her work with the crises of the present, generating images that resonate with current realities. Viewing history as a continuous flow, her main question remains the universality of existence within time, in its blurred and ever-changing form.

She grew up in Tirana during the final years of Albania's communist regime. Film and cinematography, especially Italian Neo Realism, had a significant influence on her becoming an artist. She witnessed the collapse of the regime, the country's opening, and the turbulent transition that followed during her teenage years. These dramatic shifts left a profound mark on her artistic identity, as she perceived the images of Albanias cities and landscapes during this period as a stark expression of human existentiality. 

She began her art studies in Tirana, moved later to Berlin, where she graduated and received her Master Degree at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Silva Agostinis works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe, including: Villa Medici Rom, Elevation 1049 Gstaad, Draussenstadt – Call for action Berlin, National Gallery Tirana, Bazament Tirana, Belvedere 21 Wien, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Basis Frankfurt, Grieder Contemporary Zürich, Macedonian Museum of contemporary art Thessaloniki, the Muzeul National de arta contemporana Bucharest, Gallery Isabella Czarnowska Berlin, Kunstsammlung Gera, as well as at the Tirana Biennale. She received the Onufri Award in 2014 and has attended the TICA Residency in 2016 and the Art House in Shkodra 2018. She was a founding member of the project space “Very” in Berlin.